As a SOAS student in the 1980s this story is particularly powerful. Connections across time, actions that reverberate and unknown futures. It's hard to be a campaigning human with no idea if your work will ever have results or meaning. Stories linking small actions and events are helpful to those of us still feeling like we are wading thorough treacle.
We need to become systems philosophers because 1) an idea whose time has come cannot be effectively resisted and 2) disaster is at 12 and we are at 11.9.
What is the concept we need to recognize and act with? The following are all aspects of that concept:
Personal freedom and systemic free flowingness,
Free gifting as in debt jubilee (practiced routinely by the ancients until Rome),
Monetary Gifting as in UBI,
Monetary Gifting as in fiscal deficits to government contractors (MMT),
Competition within an eco-social ethical set of rules as opposed to the plodding solely self interested dominance and parasitism of monopoly (especially regarding the paradigm for the creation and distribution of money)
Integration and the integrative mindset toward...everything, AKA Wisdom, which could combine the efforts of the various leading monetary and economic reform movements (all of which philosophically align with the concept under discussion) into an integrated paradigmatic whole
All of the above are aspects of the natural philosophical concept of grace.
In a monetary economy like we have, money DOES make the world go 'round. It's the perfect temporal universe tool for doingness...and the new paradigm concept of Direct and Reciprocal Monetary Grace As in Gifting will (finally) enable us to accomplish the general good with it...if we recognize and act upon the temporal and ethical power of the natural philosophical concept of grace...which has always been the concept behind all human social, psychological and temporal/technological progress.
Writing from Cape Town... it's good in these times to read a relatively optimistic perspective on our progress – thank you, Ann.
I admire Adam, but do wish he had pushed Wits to divest from fossil fuels before moving to SOAS.
As a SOAS student in the 1980s this story is particularly powerful. Connections across time, actions that reverberate and unknown futures. It's hard to be a campaigning human with no idea if your work will ever have results or meaning. Stories linking small actions and events are helpful to those of us still feeling like we are wading thorough treacle.
lovely piece
Congratulations!
We need to become systems philosophers because 1) an idea whose time has come cannot be effectively resisted and 2) disaster is at 12 and we are at 11.9.
What is the concept we need to recognize and act with? The following are all aspects of that concept:
Personal freedom and systemic free flowingness,
Free gifting as in debt jubilee (practiced routinely by the ancients until Rome),
Monetary Gifting as in UBI,
Monetary Gifting as in fiscal deficits to government contractors (MMT),
Competition within an eco-social ethical set of rules as opposed to the plodding solely self interested dominance and parasitism of monopoly (especially regarding the paradigm for the creation and distribution of money)
Integration and the integrative mindset toward...everything, AKA Wisdom, which could combine the efforts of the various leading monetary and economic reform movements (all of which philosophically align with the concept under discussion) into an integrated paradigmatic whole
All of the above are aspects of the natural philosophical concept of grace.
In a monetary economy like we have, money DOES make the world go 'round. It's the perfect temporal universe tool for doingness...and the new paradigm concept of Direct and Reciprocal Monetary Grace As in Gifting will (finally) enable us to accomplish the general good with it...if we recognize and act upon the temporal and ethical power of the natural philosophical concept of grace...which has always been the concept behind all human social, psychological and temporal/technological progress.